Mason’s
May 29, 2009
Mason’s restaurant in The Park Ultra Lounge, nightclub, bar and private events venue in Sacramento, CA
Duration : 0:0:55
Night In The Old West
May 2, 2009
3D tour of a saloon made using Maya. I made it look better since last time.
Duration : 0:0:30
Re: Riply’s Black Hoodie Squad A Desperate Plea For Leniency
April 3, 2009
I present my case for membership to Riply’s Black Hoodie Squad even though I technically don’t meet all the requirements.
Duration : 0:12:1
The River City Saloon, Old Sacramento
March 21, 2009
Opening in the Spring of 2009, The River City Saloon located at 916 2nd Street in Old Sacramento, is going to be a destination location by day for people visiting the Sacramento area’s Old Sacramento District. With an old west themed saloon and staff dressed in period attire ready to take a picture with you. Our Saloon has sawdust on the floor, GREAT FOOD at family friendly prices , fresh shelled peanuts and 25 cent Sarsaparilla on drought.
Then at Night the Saloon comes alive with a Rock-in Good time, thou there is not a dance floor we will have you dancing on your feet and at times on the bar.
So get ready Sacramento!
WWW.NYSCENE.ORG AT RED ROCK WEST SALOON
March 10, 2009
WWW.NYSCENE.ORG STOPS BY RED ROCK WEST SALOON ON THE CORNER OF 17TH STREET AND 10TH AVE IN NEW YORK CITY, THIS WILD BIKER BAR IN THE MEAT PACKING DISTRICT IS FULL OF HOT BARTENDERS AND EQUALLY HOT PATRONS
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DJ DNA @ Tre’ Night Club Sacramento, CA 11/29/2008
February 22, 2009
DJ DNA @ Tre’ Night Club Sacramento, CA 11/29/2008
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Old West Saloons Served Up More Than Just Drinks
February 1, 2009
Are you curious about the beginnings of those Old West saloons? Many people certainly are, and they are fascinated by saloons because these are the “stuff of legends”, tall tales and some real “Cowboy” moments. Our ideas concerning Old West saloons have been cemented firmly in our minds due to a magical blend of real historical accounts and some great Hollywood fantasy.
The American West surely contained thousands of these iconic landmarks over the years, and almost everyone has a very similar picture of a saloon dancing in their heads. Swinging café doors are perhaps one of the most defining features of any cowboy saloon shown in movies. It is usual for movies and television shows to show saloons with long polished bars, round tables with an assortment of poker playing card sharks, and saloon hall ladies with sass and attitude to spare. These are based on real saloons that existed in the western cities and territories during the 1800s. Mexican cantinas were even earlier incarnations of the more popular saloons found in the rough and rugged frontiers of the American west.
Brown’s Saloon is one of the most notable of the early western libation parlors and it came into existence in 1822. The establishment was located at the aptly named Brown’s Hole, which was a small settlement in the proximity of the Wyoming-Utah- Colorado juncture. This Wild West spot was the first to be known as a ‘saloon’ and could depend on business from fur trappers who were a rough and tumble lot. According to documents there were almost as many fights occurring at Brown’s Saloon as there were drinks being served.
Where there are soldiers there are places to drink vast quantities of alcoholic beverages and this was true during the latter part of the 1800s when Bent’s Fort Colorado became home to another early and popular libations parlor. Most people have heard of Dodge City, Kansas which is one of the legendary cowboy hot spots, and the cowboys had reason to frequent the city when early saloons moved into town.
The popularity of Old West saloons can be plainly seen by following the growth they experienced in Santa Barbara during the height of the “Gold Rush”. At the beginning of the gold fever years there was one saloon, or cantina, in all of Santa Barbara, but within a couple of years, there were over 30 known saloons in existence within the city limits. Even distant Livingston, Montana with a booming town population of 3000 managed to support over 30 saloons in 1883.
In stark contrast to our ideas of how a saloon should look these first early social centers were often shacks, tents or simply a hastily constructed, unsteady lean-to. Shopkeepers and entrepreneurs knew that there was no shortage of lonely men who would visit a welcoming space that offered drink, food and warm companionship and conversation. As the years passed the saloons did begin to change and actually did take on the look and atmosphere that is now indelibly associated with them.
Customers had to be pretty desperate and fairly adventurous to visit these early Old West saloons. The whiskey was as rough, or rougher, than the desert hills and prices could be high. Many of the choice whiskeys were combination of pure alcohol and cooked sugar, with a little hot pepper sauce or chewing tobacco added for an extra kick. Some barkeeps would cut their cheap drinks with turpentine, ammonia, gunpowder or other choice additives; some even tossed in a small amount of rat poison.
You can’t say that there was no truth in advertising during these early saloon days because the names of the whiskey pretty much said it all. Some of the names were Dead Dan, 6 Feet Under, Tarantula Juice and Coffin Varnish. Some drinks contained peyote and tequila, and the cheap “House Special” was often known as Rotgut.
Though most of these old saloons are gone there are still some around like The River City Saloon in Old Sacramento
California. You can check there website out before you visit at http://www.therivercitysaloon.com. Also Deadwood has many great saloons like Big Nose Kate’s.
So step back in time and go west!
The Fireman – Wild West Saloon; Holly Springs, GA
January 19, 2009
Jason Coley and the band at the Wild West Saloon in Holly Springs (Canton), GA
Duration : 0:2:41